Mirror attachment



Patented Aug. 2, 1881.

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(No Model.)

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'HILARIUS PATTB'ERG, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

MIRROR ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,091, dated August2, 1881. Application filed June 6, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HILARIUS PATYTBER-G, of Jersey City, Hudson county,New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Mirror Attachments, of whichthe. following is a specification. v

Figure '1 isa perspective view of the box carryin g thesupporting-socket for my improved mirror attachment. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the mirror attachment complete. Fig. 3 is a sideview of. the jointed arm for supporting'the upper mirror. Fig. at is aface view of one end of said arm. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of thepost that holds the mirrors. Fig.

6 is a detail back view of the lower mirror; Fig. 7, a detail back viewof the upper mirror Fig. 8, anedge view of the upper mirror, showing itattached to the jointed arm, and Fig. 9 an edge view of the taperingsocket that is attached to the back of the upper mirror.

This invention relates to a combination of parts for sustaining inposition two mirrors, so

- that a person may obtain front and back views of the head at'the sametime; and the invention consists in the new combination of partshereinafter described.

A in the drawings represents a box provided with a suitable drawer, B,that can be slid in or out at pleasure, and into which the parts ofthe'mirror attachment can be placed when not to be used. The box Acarries also on top a socket, a, which is rigidly attached to it, and

' which is adapted to sustain inposition the post 0 of the mirrorattachment. This post 0, which is more clearly illustrated in Fig. 5,has a screw attachment, b, at its lower end, whereby it isadaptedto bescrewed into the socket a, which has a thread matched to that of thescrew 1). The body of the post 0 is hollow, as indicated in Fig. 5, andinto it is put from above a swiveled rod, D,- carrying at or near itslower end a frictional piston, 01, which tends to sustain it at anydesired height in the hot low post 0, but an additional set-screw, 0,may be used in the post for the purpose of clamping the rod D at anydesired elevation. The rod D, which is intended to carry the mirrors, isthus vertically adjustable in the hollow post, and is also swiveledtherein, so that it'can be freely turned.

Instead of making the post Ohollow and the socket on the mirror isslipped upon the wedge-shaped projection f it will be firmly supportedon the rod D and post 0.

The'mirror E may be of circular, oval, or any other suitable shape, andof such size as may be desired.

To the back of the mirror E, above the tapering socket g, is attached aprismatic socket, h, with closed or contracted lower end, which socketis intendedto receive and support the leg .72 of a jointed bar, F. Thisjointed bar is composed of two pieces, j and 2, that are-united by ahinge, m, in such manner that in use the hinge is at the top, as shownin Fig. 2, allowing the two parts of the bar F to remainin line, asthere shown. The part j of the bar F has the downwardly-projectinglegt'thatenters the socket h, and that is supported therein, sothat the bar F stands at a certain angle forward of the mirror E. Thepart Zof the bar F has also a downwardly-projecting arm, n, which'isrigidly attached to its outer end, and which arm n carries at its lowerend a tapering or wedge-shaped piece, 0, similar in form and.construction to the piece f already described.

. The upper mirror, G, has attached to its back a tapering socket, p, inall respects like the socket g, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, which socketp is adapted toreceive the wedge-shaped projection 0, thus allowing themirror G to be suspended from the bar F, as in Fig. 2, and as alsoclearly indicated in Fig. 8.

Thus constructed the mirror attachment is adapted to hold the twomirrors at the requisite angle and distance from each other, and anyadjustment to this end is altogether unnecessary, the only adjustmentneeded being the height of the post 0 tobring the mirror E opposite theface of the person who intends to use it. To this end the post 0 is madeexten- IOO sible, beingprovided with the vertically-adj use able rod D.The parts are readily taken asunder, the mirrorG being slipped off therod F, the rod F off the mirror E, and folded together on its hinge m,the mirror then slipped off the rod 1), and finally the post 0, with itsrod being unscrewed from the socket a, whereupon all the parts may beplaced into the drawer B until they are to be used again.

I do not broadly claim a mirror attachment having two mirrors arrangedto reflect the front and back of the head, as several attachments forthat purpose have already been in use; but

I do claini 1. The combination of the post 0, having described.

IIILARIUS PATTBERG. Witnesses:

WILLY G. E. SCHULTZ, \VILLIAM II. 0. SMITH.

